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• Provide practical guidance on how to plan and implement a public engagement activity • Provide attendees with sample tools to facilitate planning 1 The role of the ad hoc planning committee of the ...

Disaster planning traditionally focuses on three variables: data center replication, building design and backups. Analysts have maintained for years that the most common “disaster” is outright ...

Here's the best disaster-recovery advice available: Avoid disasters altogether. But as most VARs know from experience, that's not always possible. Take it from Patrick McNicholas. The president of ...

“Every American should have the opportunity to be as healthy as he or she can be. Every community should be safe from threats to its health. And all individuals and families should have a high level ...

Planning for an unthinkable disaster is never a pleasant task -- but one that is a very necessary in today's business environment and geopolitical landscape. Now more than ever, businesses are relying ...

With climate challenges only growing in intensity, today’s best practice is to shift focus from traditional rapid disaster response to more dynamic long-term planning. Utilities may have rapid ...

In the first in this series of articles on disaster recovery (DR) planning, we examined risk and business impact assessment as the initial building block, and then looked at development of the DR plan ...

Good emergency planning practices and regulatory compliance mandate that long-term care facilities identify the potential threats, perils, and hazards that can adversely impact operations both from an ...

As Hurricane Matthew bore down on the Atlantic Coast in October 2016, Mary Fashik was forced to leave her home in Brunswick, Georgia, for a communal shelter in Valdosta, about a two-hour drive inland.

People with disability are disproportionately affected by disasters, but have fewer choices when emergencies unfold. Our previous research showed how, for people with disability, natural hazard ...